by John Paul Brammer

Three years before the Stonewall riots, Julius' Bar in New York City made gay history. Listen to the story of Dick Leitsch, the man who was denied service for being gay in this very bar in 1966 in what has come to be known as the historic "Sip-In."

“We’ve got to go back and recognize that what they did in Obergefell was not only to take and create a right that does not exist under the Constitution but then to mandate that that right compels Christians to give up their religious freedom and liberty.”

Albert Cashier served in the army as a man, lived his life as man and was buried at 71 with full military honors in 1915, as a man. But beneath the uniform in which he fought and was buried, he was biologically a woman.

by John Broich

The story of how close Germany – and much of Europe – came to liberating its LGBTQ people before violently reversing that trend under new authoritarian regimes is an object lesson showing that the history of LGBTQ rights is not a record of constant progress.